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WA4CZD1950-1959 Radio News

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News from the 1950's

I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1950's news file dump. Plus some talk shows and specials.

Any typo or error is mine.


This audio is part of the collection: WWII Archive
It also belongs to collection: Additional Collections

Artist/Composer: WA4CZD
Keywords: 1950; 1951; 1952; 1953; 1954; 1955; 1956; 1957; 1958; 1959; Cold War; Korean War; news; old time radio; baseball; HUAC


Individual Files

Audio Files VBR MP3 Ogg Vorbis
1950-02-06 Billings Montana News Warren Marshall 4.6 MB
4.9 MB
1950-02-06 MBS Newsreel Digest 3.2 MB
3.3 MB
1950-02-25 CBS Atomic City U.S.A. 5.2 MB
6.5 MB
1950-02-xx SYN American Heart Association Presents 1950 Heart Fund - Jo Stafford 2.5 MB
3.1 MB
1950-04-07 CBS Edward R. Murrow Case Of The Flying Saucer 5.7 MB
6.3 MB
1950-04-15 CBS Welcome Back, Baseball Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour 5.3 MB
6.8 MB
1950-04-25 AU Calling The Stars ep404 The Spirit of ANZAC 5.5 MB
6.4 MB
1950-04-27 ABC Hollywood Byline 19 Betty Hutton 7.8 MB
10.0 MB
1950-05-06 WHAS Kentucky Derby Clem McCarthy 431.0 KB
534.1 KB
1950-05-07 U.N. Radio The Doctor and Magdalena Gene Lockhart and Marsha Hunt 3.4 MB
4.2 MB
1950-05-24 BBC Dunkirk Charles Gardner Interviews Charles Herbert Lightroller 886.8 KB
1.0 MB
1950-05-26 NBC Bill Stern's Sports Newsreel Jackie Robinson 2.7 MB
3.1 MB
1950-05-xx U.N. Radio Fear Itself Martin Gable 4.0 MB
5.0 MB
1950-06-03 AFRTS Air Force Hour Triumph of Old Glory 5.9 MB
6.4 MB
1950-06-16 U.N. Radio Albert Einstein on Gandhi 77.2 KB
81.4 KB
1950-06-16 U.N. Radio Albert Einstein on The Bomb 57.1 KB
78.5 KB
1950-07-09 ABC Louella Parsons Show Shelly Winters 2.8 MB
3.3 MB
1950-08-24 CBS Somebody Knows Unsolved Murder Of Elizabeth Short 5.4 MB
6.2 MB
1950-09-27 CBS Joe Louis vs. Ezzard Charles 6.7 MB
6.9 MB
1950-11-18 NBC Voices & Events Thanksgiving 4.9 MB
6.3 MB
1950-12-12 AFRS Bob Hope From Long Beach, California Veteran's Hospital - Claudette Colbert, Margaret Whiting 3.3 MB
4.6 MB
1950-12-15 CBS Hear It Now Edward R. Murrow 10.3 MB
13.5 MB
1950-12-22 CBS Hear It Now Edward R. Murrow 10.6 MB
13.5 MB
1950-12-25 AFRS Bob Hope From Long Beach, California Veteran's Hospital - Bing Crosby 3.7 MB
4.7 MB
1951-01-12 CBS Hear It Now 10.4 MB
13.9 MB
1951-02-02 CBS News Don Hollenbeck 2.8 MB
3.3 MB
1951-03-20 CBS Edward R. Murrow UN Troops Face Stiff Opposition 2.6 MB
3.3 MB
1951-04-11 CBS KOOK Truman, MacArthur Interruption 5.9 MB
6.5 MB
1951-04-11 General Douglas MacArthur Farewell Address To Congress 3.2 MB
4.3 MB
1951-04-11 MBS Truman, MacArthur Commentary 1.8 MB
1.8 MB
1951-04-19 CBS MacArthur, Congress 11.8 MB
12.9 MB
1951-04-19 General Douglas MacArthur Old Soldiers 119.8 KB
194.0 KB
1951-xx-xx General Douglas MacArthur Address to Congress 798.3 KB
1.2 MB
1951-04-20 CBS Hear It Now 10.7 MB
13.4 MB
1951-04-27 CBS Hear It Now 10.7 MB
13.4 MB
1951-05-11 CBS Hear It Now 10.8 MB
13.8 MB
1951-05-18 CBS Hear It Now 10.6 MB
13.4 MB
1951-05-25 CBS Hear It Now 10.8 MB
12.5 MB
1951-06-17 CBS News Bob Trout 833.8 KB
947.8 KB
1951-06-29 NBC Bill Stern's Sports Newsreel Final Show for Colgate 3.1 MB
3.0 MB
1951-07-09 CBS News 13.1 MB
6.8 MB
1951-10-03 LBS National League Championship Game 3 Giants vs Dodgers 15.2 MB
25.2 MB
1951-10-03 WMCA The Shot Russ Hodges 265.0 KB
359.0 KB
1951-10-25 CBS Edward R. Murrow News 2.9 MB
3.0 MB
1951-11-04 MBS U.N. Radio Windows on the World Douglas Fairbanks, Norman Corwin 10.5 MB
12.9 MB
1951-xx-xx CBS Jack Benny The 20th Anniversary Banquet 4.3 MB
6.0 MB
1951-12-25 NBC Bob Hope Christmas From Long Beach Veteran's Hospital - Bing Crosby 3.0 MB
4.7 MB
1951-xx-xx 2UW These Were Their Yesterdays ep42 HMAS Sydney 2.2 MB
2.5 MB
1951-xx-xx AFRS Juke Box U.S.A. #50 Rebel Randall 5.1 MB
6.6 MB
1951-xx-xx AFRS Special Troop Information 103 We Take Our Stand 5.9 MB
6.8 MB
1951-xx-xx NBC 25th Anniversary Silver Jubilee Broadcast 4.6 MB
4.7 MB
1952-01-10 Harry S. Truman Press Conference 3.4 MB
4.4 MB
1952-04-04 NBC I Remember Kaltenborn 5.0 MB
6.9 MB
1952-06-30 CBS Edward R. Murrow Truman Signs Wage And Price Control Bill 2.7 MB
3.2 MB
1952-07-07 KGHL or KBMY 1952 Republican Convention 648.4 KB
718.1 KB
1952-07-07 Republican Convention MacArthur Speech 6.3 MB
6.5 MB
1952-07-07 Republican Convention MacArthur Keynote Address Part 1 6.3 MB
6.5 MB
1952-07-07 Republican Convention MacArthur Keynote Address Part 2 6.4 MB
6.5 MB
1952-12-23 NBC Cavalcade Of America 767 Christmas in America 5.7 MB
5.9 MB
1952-12-24 NBC Bob Hope Frank Sinatra, Christmas 3.4 MB
4.6 MB
1952-10-31 AFRS Frankenstein Castle Hoax 1.0 MB
1.4 MB
1952-xx-xx Election Song I Like Ike Eisenhower 130.3 KB
151.6 KB
1953-01-01 AFRS AFRS Story 5.5 MB
6.7 MB
1953-01-15 AFN Operation Information 5.9 MB
6.5 MB
1953-02-11 KOOK CBS News 1.3 MB
1.4 MB
1953-05-15 ABC Headline Edition Taylor Grant 761.0 KB
1.0 MB
1953-06-xx SYN March of Dimes 1953 Man Against the Crippler 4.8 MB
6.2 MB
1953-08-xx U.N. Radio The Korea Story 01 Dag Hammarskjold, Dick Powell 5.4 MB
6.4 MB
1953-08-xx U.N. Radio The Korea Story 02 The Quiet War - Helen Hayes 5.2 MB
6.2 MB
1953-11-16 Harry S Truman on Harry Dexter White Case 4.9 MB
5.3 MB
1953-12-06 NBC Stroke of Fate Our Neighbor in Alaska 5.6 MB
6.3 MB
1952-12-21 NBC Voices & Events of 1953 Morgan Beatty 9.9 MB
11.5 MB
1953-12-24 NBC Bob Hope Frank Sinatra 5.7 MB
5.0 MB
1953-12-25 NBC Bob Hope From Long Beach Veteran's Hospital - Esther Williams 5.7 MB
6.2 MB
1954-03-xx CBS Edward R. Murrow Commentary on Senator McCarthy 114.8 KB
173.2 KB
1954-03-xx CBS News and Edward R. Murrow Spars With Senator McCarthy 2.7 MB
3.2 MB
1954-05-05 CBS Army-McCarthy Hearings Update 7.5 MB
8.6 MB
1954-05-31 Eisenhower Man's Right To Knowledge And It's Free Use Thereof 5.0 MB
6.7 MB
1954-06-04 KFWB News 2.5 MB
2.9 MB
1954-08-10 CBS Let's Talk About You Norman Vincent Peale, General Jimmy Doolittle 2.6 MB
2.9 MB
1954-09-29 NBC Jack Brickhouse 183.6 KB
173.7 KB
1954-xx-xx SYN Phil Rizzuto's Sports Caravan Bill Stern 2.3 MB
2.6 MB
1954-xx-xx SYN Phil Rizzuto's Sports Caravan Mel Allen 2.2 MB
2.6 MB
1954-xx-xx SYN Red Cross Appeal Guest Bob Hope 1.6 MB
2.3 MB
1954-xx-xx U.N. Radio The Day It Happened Madeleine Carroll, Franchot Tone, Lowell Thomas 5.0 MB
6.0 MB
1955-02-xx SYN A Common Virtue The Battle for Iwo Jima Anniversary Tribute 3.3 MB
3.2 MB
1955-12-31 MBS KHJ News Gabriel Heatter, Virgil Pinkley 4.9 MB
5.6 MB
1955-12-xx AFRTS VA Hospital's Christmas Bing Crosby, Dinah Shore 2.0 MB
2.6 MB
1955-xx-xx U.N. Radio The Birthday Party Julie Harris 4.9 MB
6.1 MB
1956-01-26 CBC Foreign Correspondents Recall Their Best Stories 2.8 MB
2.9 MB
1956-01-29 CBC Ernest Alvia 737.3 KB
1,000.8 KB
1956-03-09 CBS Radio Workshop Report on E.S.P. 5.4 MB
6.4 MB
1956-07-10 NBC All-Star Game 32.5 MB
36.2 MB
1956-08-23 Dwight D. Eisenhower Acceptance Speech 5.1 MB
7.2 MB
1956-10-17 ABC Tomorrow narrated by Orson Welles 9.7 MB
13.1 MB
1956-11-15 WCCO Nighttime News Cedric Adams 2.6 MB
3.5 MB
1956-12-10 CBC Matthew Halton Remembered By Colleagues 4.3 MB
4.8 MB
1956-xx-xx BBC U.N. Radio The Charter in the Saucer Laurence Olivier, Norman Corwin 5.8 MB
6.8 MB
1956-xx-xx U.N. Radio A Friendly Warning Alistair Cooke 5.4 MB
6.3 MB
1957-01-18 CBS Edward R. Murrow With The News 2.7 MB
3.1 MB
1957-05-12 CBS Suspense Tarawa Was Tough 5.8 MB
4.8 MB
1957-07-04 WQXR The Declaration Of Independence JFK 2.0 MB
2.3 MB
1957-10-04 Radio Moscow Sputnik 52.4 KB
66.3 KB
1958-07-14 BBC Big Ben Nancy Mitford, et al 770.3 KB
939.9 KB
1958-xx-xx Wayne and Shuster A Shakespearean Baseball Game 1.6 MB
2.3 MB
1959-08-23 BBC Prologue To War Lord William Strang, Ralph Izzard 2.3 MB
2.9 MB
1959-xx-xx Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tennessee Flannery O'Connor - A Good Man Is Hard To Find 6.3 MB
8.8 MB
1959-xx-xx Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tennessee Flannery O'Connor - Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Literature 1.6 MB
2.1 MB
1959-xx-xx U.N. Radio The Fight Against Polio Frank Sinatra 837.5 KB
1.1 MB
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Reviewer: Jofus-Boston - 4.00 out of 5 stars4.00 out of 5 stars4.00 out of 5 stars4.00 out of 5 stars - April 25, 2013
Subject: CBS Could mHave Done Something Different On April 11th, 1951

Since the end of the boxing match couldn't have been broadcast live due to President Truman's speech, and since high-quality audio tape equipment had been developed by that time, CBS Radio should have taped the rest of the fight from the start of Round 7 onward, and played it back once the speech was over.

This way, everyone would have been happy.

Reviewer: OneOfThoseBoomers - 5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars5.00 out of 5 stars - August 5, 2012
Subject: Just Like Being a Time Traveler
Wow! These recordings are absolutely wonderful! Such a great picture of what the world was like shortly before I was born.

Listening to the Betty Hutton interview (from 1950), at the end of the interview when Betty was asking the reporters questions, she was marveling over the big new thing that was television. She asked them if they thought that TV or radio would ever have a bad effect on newspapers. None of the reporters felt either would be detrimental to newspapers. One reporter said "how would one clip out their news stories from TV or radio?" He felt TV and radio would absolutely not have a detrimental effect on newspaper, "something that you can actually hold in your hand." Oh boy, oh boy. Little did they know how the future method of communication and information would so drastically change the world that they knew.

Well - the female reporter answered that she would like one of those little boxes she heard about that people can have in their homes and it would print out the newspaper for them while they fix their morning coffee. !! (I personally never read of that invention being around in the 50s. Obviously it was an idea that was a little ahead of its time.)

I also listened to the very brief announcement of the launch of Sputnik, which the reporter called "earth's very first artificial satellite." Wow. Sixty plus years later and now there is a space junk yard orbiting earth's outer atmosphere.

These are really great recordings. There are gems in these recordings if you just take time to listen.

You know, it makes you realize that today's newest technologies will be looked at like stone and chisel at some time in the future world, when later generations are listening/watching our recordings and wondering about us and our way of life today.

But then again, with the constant advancements in medicine, science and plastic surgery, we all may be living, patched together with artificial limbs, Bio-Gel, spit and a prayer until we are 150 years old!!!! (Oh, no, I really hope not!)

Thanks again for the great recordings.

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